The Rise and Fall of America’s First Great Highway: Lincoln Highway

Before Route 66. Before the interstates. Before America even had a real coast-to-coast road, there was the Lincoln Highway. It began as an ambitious private experiment stitched together from dirt roads, cattle trails, and sheer nerve. Then one disastrous Army convoy proved America needed something better. Decades later, the officer who survived that journey became President Dwight Eisenhower—and built the interstate system that made the Lincoln Highway obsolete. This is the rise, fall, and forgotten legacy of America’s first great highway. #roadtrip #usroadtrip #america250